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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. View quote | Artaud, Antonin quotes

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. View quote | Erasmus, Desiderius quotes

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them; they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. View quote | Freud, Sigmund quotes

You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went. View quote | Hopper, Dennis quotes

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now. View quote | Twain, Mark quotes

The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials. View quote | Twain, Mark quotes

How strange to have failed as a social creature -- even criminals do not fail that way -- they are the law's Loyal Opposition, so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read. View quote | Unknown, Source quotes

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded. View quote | Wittgenstein, Ludwig quotes